Siddharth Zarabi

Irani abandoning any thought of personal safety, grabbed a bucket, operating a hand pump and egging on the villagers to save their lives, livestock and straw huts in the hamlet that were slowly being ravaged in the fire that had started after farmers resorted to the age old method of clearing farm stubble.

The smell of wet cement greets you the moment you walk into the terminal after arriving at the Bamrauli military airbase and public airport in the recently rechristened eastern Uttar Pradesh city of Prayagraj.